Informational text is defined as text with the primary purpose of expressing information about the arts, sciences, or social studies. This text ranges from newspaper and magazine articles to digital information to nonfiction trade books to textbooks and reference materials.
Boone-Winnebago Wednesday, July 9th
Primary Source Ideas and Activities
What is a primary source?
Analyzing Primary Sources
Analysis tool
Classroom connections
History:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/hist-am-west/history.html
Critical Thinking:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/hist-am-west/thinking.html
Arts & Humanities
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/hist-am-west/langarts.html
WPA Posters- Farming
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=wpapos
Out of the Dust- Dust Bowl
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dust/
Common Core State Standards- Ag literacy connections
ISBE
http://www.isbe.net/common_core/pls/default.htm
Ag Literacy and Common Core State Standards-Making the Connection
Breaking down the standards:
Introduction Activity
See Think Wonder
Photo:http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8a44658/
Close Reading Explained:
Activity : Primary Sources and CCSS-Calendar Photos
Thinking Triangle Activity:
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/04/connecting-common-core-primary-source-thinking-triangle-activity/
Questions:
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2011/09/engaging-learning-purposeful-questions-close-observation/
Library of Congress-Primary Sources at the Heart of CCSS
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/journal/common_core/pdf/common_core.pdf
Primary Source lesson activities
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/03/analyzing-primary-source-images-common-core-state-standards-alignment/
QAR
http://primarysourcenexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Image_Questions_Responses_Chart.pdf
Photo to analyze:
ansel adams http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a24000/3a24500/3a24566v.jpg
grocery store http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8a13000/8a13100/8a13129v.jpg
Reading Anchor Standards-College & Career Readiness
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/CCRA/R
Activity
Poem:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181826
Add Calendar photos (primary sources) to each line or each stanza
Walt Whitman's Poem
A Farm Picture
by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
Activity #3: Model Close Reading- excerpt form The Beef Princess of Practical County
Primer on Close Reading
http://www.aspendrl.org/portal/browse/DocumentDetail?documentId=1396&download
Five Close Reading Strategies
http://iteachicoachiblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/five-simple-close-reading-strategies.html
Close Reading Question Template
F& P Struggling Readers-
http://www.heinemann.com/fountasandpinnell/handouts/WRSInsideCover.pdf
Compare & Contrast
Paired Text:
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/thinkers/e-pair.htm
Paired Text- Whole or Small Group discussion
Venn Diagram tool:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/venn-diagram-30973.html
Writing
Writing resource: Writing Next- EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WRITING OF ADOLESCENTS IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS
http://www.all4ed.org/files/WritingNext.pdf
Standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
http://storybird.com/
Writing prompt ideas-
Unwritten rules of farming
I witnessed on a farm...
What made that- using just equipment or tools: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/magazine/who-made-that.html
Explain a photo (using farm photos)
Compare 3 items- 3 Ag related items or 3 farming related areas (beef, pork, crops)
Six things you should know about farming (or any other Ag related topic)
Writing: Focus/Support/Wrap up
http://www.phylsquill.com/downloads.htm
Stapleless Book Tool:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/stapleless-book-30010.html
KWL
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/creator-30846.html
Persuasion Interactive
Get your argument organized:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/
Activity #1: Looking at Reading Informational text K-12- comparing language
What is Informational Text?
http://umaine.edu/edhd/professionals/mels/correll-book-award/what-is-informational-text/
Informational text is defined as text with the primary purpose of expressing information about the arts, sciences, or social studies. This text ranges from newspaper and magazine articles to digital information to nonfiction trade books to textbooks and reference materials.
The CCSS specify four types of informational text: literary nonfiction, expository, argument or persuasion, and procedural. -from "Booklist" article, American Library Association
Scholastic Article: The Difference Between Informational Text and Non-fiction
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/pdfs/duke_sample_pages.pdf
Types of Informational Text:
Pass around examples...
Why do we read Informational Text?
Brainstorm list
Text Structure
Compare and Contrast
Problem/Solution
Question/Answer
Description
Chronological
Cause and Effect
Text Features
Why are there text features?
Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.
Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text.
Teaching tools for text features: http://page.reallygoodstuff.com/pdfs/157556.pdf
Bold
Graphs
Maps
Illustrations
Diagrams
Clipart
All Caps
Color
Italics
Underline
Highlight
Borders
Headings
Table of Contents
Insets and sidebars
Bullets
Numbering
Photos
Asterisks
Stars
Timelines
Glossary
Captions and Labels
Index
Informational Text Examples/Activities:
Wonderopolis
http://wonderopolis.org/home/Can you grow candy corn?
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/can-you-grow-candy-corn/
How-to guide
How to make an erupting volcano
http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/volcano.php
What supplies do you need?
What will you do first?
What is the last thing you will need to do?
Where should you do thist activity?
What is a question you have?
Do you think you could do this?
What are some things that might go wrong?
Infographic
http://www.usdairy.com/Sustainability/Pages/Council-Toolkit.aspx#InfographicLibrary
3-2-1 sheet:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson951/strategy.pdf
What is happening in the Photo?
Close Observation and Purposeful Questions
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2011/09/engaging-learning-purposeful-questions-close-observation/
Photo
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/nclc.04521/
Primary Source- Hide & Seek
Hide & Seek on Mulberry Street
http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/09/hide-and-seek-on-mulberry-street-with-the-library-of-congress/
Newspaper
From Reading Rockets: Newspaper Activity ideas
Searching the Paper
Skills: Student effectively skims and scans for information.
Have your students find each of the following in the newspaper:
someone wearing glasses
map
animal
television listing
the name of your city
athlete
action word
television star
cartoon
story about another country
letter from a reader
movie review or ad
Strategies to teach informational text:
Collaborative Strategic Reading
Before reading:
Preview-Brainstorm, Predict
Purpose-Set a purpose, Why am I reading this?
During reading:
Click-What did I learn
Clunk-What was hard to understand?
Connect-What did I know before that I can connect to this new information?
Get the Gist-What is the most important person/place/thing in this section?
After Reading
Wrap it up-Ask questions, clarify
Monitor for Understanding-Review, what did we learn?
Resources/Materials
CCSS Appendix B-Examples of Informational Texts (Pages 28-35)
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf
eReading Worksheet-
Detecting types of text structure and pulling out examples
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/identifying-text-structure-1.pdf
The Common Core Lesson Book
http://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/e04293/common_core_lesson_book_sample2.pdf
How to get to Library of Congress Primary Source Theme sets
(they did the work for you!)
http://primarysourcenexus.org/psn-resources/themed-link-sets/
Library of Congress
Informational Text resources
http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/02/informational-text-the-common-core-and-the-library-of-congress-a-resource-center-rich-with-primary-sources-and-teacher-tools/
Analyze a Primary Source
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/primary-source-analysis-tool/
Analyzing Primary Source Materials-Matching up to Reading Anchor Standards
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/03/analyzing-primary-source-images-common-core-state-standards-alignment/
Thinking Triangle
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/04/connecting-common-core-primary-source-thinking-triangle-activity/
Strategies for Reading Informational Text
http://iteachicoachiblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/five-simple-close-reading-strategies.html
Read.Write.Think.
ReadWriteThink- Building Comprehension with Informational Text
Common Core Resources
Reading Informational Text
ISBE Resource for Teaching and Instruction Resources
http://www.isbe.net/common_core/pdf/ela-teach-strat-read-text-k-5.pdf
Nebraska- Student friendly language-ELA CCSS (I Can Statements)
http://www.education.ne.gov/read/StudentFriendlyStandards/
The Common Core and Close Reading- An Outcome Not a Reading Strategy
http://dconrad3.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/common-core-close-reading-an-outcome-not-a-reading-strategy/
To close:
Workshop Wishes
http://answergarden.ch/